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Debian DLA-2412-2 : openjdk-8 regression update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142174

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A few issues have been found in the OpenJDK 8u272 update, including LDAP connection failures and application crash.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 8u275-b01-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openjdk-8 packages.

For the detailed security status of openjdk-8 please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openjdk-8

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00033.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/openjdk-8

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/openjdk-8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142174

File Name: debian_DLA-2412.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2020

Updated: 12/23/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14792

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-jre-headless, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-jdk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-jre-zero, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-jre, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-jdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-source, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjdk-8-demo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2020